E-Commerce

It seems that not a day goes by without news of a major shake up in retail. Yet many consumer goods companies seem to be continuing with the same old strategies. This week Aeon, the mega Japanese retailer, announced the acquisition of Boxed – an online retailer specializing in bulk deliveries. In discussions with a …

A on the US subscription ecommerce market contained a number of surprises. What is clear is that subscriptions are now of significant scale. What the report from McKinsey doesn’t really highlight is the risks and threats that subscription shopping brings – how subscription ecommerce shopping massively disrupts all other shopping – even in categories that …

“Direct To Consumer: That’s really only for the really big companies, isn’t it?” I’m quoting from a recent conversation during a panel discussion with a group of senior executives from the consumer goods industry. We were discussing the fact that some very large consumer goods companies were now making significant Direct To Consumer plays (for …

There was a time when a lot of people I spoke to didn’t think much about e-commerce. E-commerce was small and while it might grow, it was something to be concerned about at some non-distinct future time. Now it appears that e-commerce is being roundly acknowledged as being definitely ‘now’. Even those countries where e-commerce is …